Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write (Record no. 296419)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674737709
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 808.042 SWO-A
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Personal name Helen Sword
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harvard University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This book is a guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment. Sword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice: Behavioral habits of discipline and persistence; Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care; Social habits of collegiality and collaboration; and Emotional habits of positivity and pleasure. Building on this "BASE," she illuminates the emotional complexity of the writing process and exposes the lack of writing support typically available to early-career academics. She also lays to rest the myth that academics must produce safe, conventional prose or risk professional failure. The successful writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking rewarded. Grounded in empirical research and focused on sustainable change, Air & Light & Time & Space offers a customizable blueprint for refreshing personal habits and creating a collegial environment where all writers can flourish
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Academic writing. College teachers as authors. Schreiben
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Koha item type Book
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 07/07/2017 1 808.042 SWO-A DCB3144 23/11/2018 07/07/2017 07/07/2017 Book